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I’m Leaving Google — Here’s the Real Deal Behind Google Cloud

Prototyping, Libraries on Sketch Cloud and an official iOS UI kit in Sketch 49

6 links that will show you what Google knows about you

The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified

A Design Analysis of Cloud-based Microservices Architecture at Netflix

1. Introduction

Why you should not use Google Cloud.

Update (18-July-2018): GCP has updated their account management policies to be more friendlier to GCP customers. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-our-account-management-policies-to-better-support-customers.html

How I Cleared 3 Google Cloud Certifications in 3 Weeks

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But you get me riled enough, and I…

Going Serverless: how to run your first AWS Lambda function in the cloud

The Evolution of UI/UX Designers Into Product Designers

Running Jupyter Notebook on Google Cloud Platform in 15 min

Automated Machine Learning on the Cloud in Python

An introduction to the future of data science

How I Passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Exam

Without the recommended…

Why learning to code Alexa Skills is the gateway to a cloud computing job

Best Deals in Deep Learning Cloud Providers

Where to train deep learning models online for the lowest…

Should I query my Firebase database directly, or use Cloud Functions?

How I designed, developed, and deployed a chatbot entirely in the cloud

What’s the relationship between Firebase and Google Cloud?

Cloud Cities of Venus

Why so set on colonizing Mars? There’s better options.

10 UX Design Predictions For 2018

We’re living in a time when design and user experience have never mattered more. The past decade of…

Sketch 39 Brings Symbol Resizing and Cloud Beta

Architecture for High-Throughput Low-Latency Big Data Pipeline on Cloud

Scalable and efficient data…

Google Has Finally Convinced Me to Create My Own Cloud

And here’s how you can do it too

Scaling Applications in the Cloud

Solutions for scalability:scale up, scale out, Redis Cache…

UX Process: What It Is, What It Looks Like and Why It’s Important

Monitoring in the time of Cloud Native

Note — Huge thanks to Jamie Wilkinson and Julius Volz, Google SREs present and past, for…

Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm. Who’s the bigger and better?

Serverless Showdown: AWS Lambda vs Firebase Google Cloud Functions

June 8 Update: Jason Polites from Google (https://www.linkedin.com/in/polites/) helpfully clarified a couple issues around my analysis of Google Cloud Functions. These updates are added in line with the article text…

cloud-nuke: how we reduced our AWS bill by ~85%

Cloud Is Not a Digital Transformation Strategy (Unless You Are Amazon)

Google Cloud Architect Exam Study Materials

(Update: I’ve added a new post highlighting my re-certification: Google Cloud Architect Exam Study Materials — Updates for 2019 Re-Certification. Be sure to check it out for some additional notes and prep material!)

Cloud Run VS Cloud Functions: What’s the lowest cost?

Cloud Earning PHT Reduction

Hello Everyone,

Training and serving a realtime mobile object detector in 30 minutes with Cloud TPUs

By Sara Robinson, Aakanksha Chowdhery, and Jonathan Huang

What if you could train and serve your object detection models even faster? We’ve heard your feedback…

How to upload data to Firebase Firestore Cloud Database

6 Reasons Why Graphic Designers Should Learn UX Design

สร้าง LINE Bot ด้วย Messaging API และ Cloud Functions for Firebase

Firebase & Google Cloud: What’s different with Cloud Functions?

Are Cloud Certifications Worth the Sweat and Tears?

Taking a cloud cert can be a significant…

About the Google Professional Cloud Architect exam — (GCP 2019)

This month, I took the Professional…

Software engineer — from monolith to cloud: think small

How does the switch to containers and…

Organizing your Firebase Cloud Functions

Organize your Cloud Functions for Firebase with scale in mind. Handle a small or huge amount of Cloud Functions without a big index file. Keep a clear overview over all of your triggers.

The Google Cloud Developer Cheat Sheet

A comprehensive list of all of the Google Cloud products and online resources with concise and succinct descriptions.

This post is now deprecated. Find the latest Cheat Sheet at https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words

“YOU CAN BUILD AI”

Building a Successful Modern Data Analytics Platform in the Cloud

How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?

Two weeks ago, Spotify announced it was migrating from its own datacentres to Google Cloud Platform.

This is a huge win from Google because Spotify is the first major service running at huge scale that is deploying across many of its…

Netflix Cloud Security: Detecting Credential Compromise in AWS

Will Bengtson, Netflix Security Tools and Operations

Credential compromise is an important concern for anyone operating in the cloud. The problem becomes more obvious over time, as organizations…

Every Google Cloud product described in 4 words or less

28 new products — the Github link shows which ones are new

Download PDFs, text, and hi-res PNGs from https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words

Basic examples of using Cloud Firestore Security Rules

Cloud Firestore Security Rules is a tool to…

Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective

Is Humanity Ignoring Our First Chance For A Mission To An Oort Cloud Object?

Sedna could be the very…

AWS AppSync — Up and Running with GraphQL in the Cloud

The AWS AppSync GraphQL service offers real-time updates and built-in offline support along with first class integration with ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda.

How we built Latin America’s largest cloud restaurant company during a global pandemic

AWS vs Paperspace vs FloydHub : Choosing your cloud GPU partner

AR Developers need the AR-Cloud, right now

ARwayKit: Why & How we’re building tools to empower the AR-Cloud that we’ve all been…

Next.js on Cloud Functions for Firebase with Firebase Hosting

SSR with Clean URLs

Color Management, Sketch Cloud updates and Symbol Scaling in Sketch 48

Introducing Cloud Inspector — free developer handoff in the browser

Private Sharing in Sketch Cloud, Sync Shared Styles shortcuts and more in Sketch 46

Cloud Design Patterns— Explained Simply

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns…

Why we moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform?

TL;DR: AWS’s awesome, but Google is Googol awesome.

Cloud Native Application Architecture

Introduction

How To Use Cloud Firestore in Flutter

In this article, we will add Cloud Firestore to a Flutter…

Distributed teams are the new Cloud for startups

Redis vs. Memcached: In-Memory Data Storage Systems

Redis and Memcached are both in-memory data storage systems. Memcached is a high-performance distributed memory cache service, and Redis is an open-source key-value store. Similar to Memcached, Redis stores most of the data in the memory…

Comparing API Gateway Performances: NGINX vs. ZUUL vs. Spring Cloud Gateway vs. Linkerd

Realtime Database vs. Cloud Firestore — Which Database is Suitable for your Mobile App

AWS vs. DigitalOcean: Which Cloud Server is Better

How Coinbase Builds Secure Infrastructure To Store Bitcoin In The Cloud

Or how to build paranoid infrastructure on top of AWS

Three and a half years ago, Coinbase launched using a simple hosting platform: Heroku.

Simple way to deploy machine learning models to cloud

Deploy your first ML model to production with a…

Cloud Functions for Firebase, sending e-mail

Cloud Functions é um recurso do Google Cloud, que permite…

GraphQL Server on Cloud Functions for Firebase

The smoothest GraphQL on FaaS DX to date!

Easy Push Notifications with Flutter and Firebase Cloud Messaging

What are Cloud Computing Services [IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, FaaS, SaaS]

Difference between IaaS SaaS PaaS…

Ultimate guide to setting up a Google Cloud machine for fast.ai course (deprecated)

Latest: 13 Feb 2019 — This guide has been deprecated. Please refer to the official guide…

“Why is my Cloud Firestore query slow?”

Cloud Firestore queries are really fast… except when they…

Snowflake’s Cloud Data Warehouse — What I Learned and Why I’m Rethinking the Data Warehouse

Achieving Performance and Simplicity in the Cloud for ORC Data Loads and Tableau Visualization

How to Extract the Text from PDFs Using Python and the Google Cloud Vision API

Introduction to Glitch for Node.js Apps in the Cloud

Getting started with Cloud Firestore on React Native

The HyperX Cloud Mix is A Bit Too Expensive

Value leader HyperX makes a gutsy move into the premium…

How to use Cloud Firestore with Flutter

In one of my previous blogs i had discussed about using Firebase realtime database with…

Build a Weather Station using Google Cloud IoT Core and MongooseOS

Collecting massive amount of data…

Survival guide: how to migrate from the Firebase Realtime Database to Cloud Firestore

How to build a web application using Flask and deploy it to the cloud

Introduction

Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. From config server to OAuth2 server (without inMemory things) — Part…

เข้มข้นกับ Cloud Firestore ระบบฐานข้อมูลที่เปิดตัวใหม่ล่าสุดจาก Firebase แบบจัดเต็ม

What are the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services?

Described without… help from marketing

See Also: What is Google’s Cloud Platform (described using on the 1,000 most commonly used words)?

[Firebase] Cloud Firestore — Add, Set, Update, Delete Get data

A Cheat Sheet for Firestore to…

How to train Machine Learning models in the cloud using Cloud ML Engine

And how to artfully write a task.py using the docopt package

React + Cloud Firestore: Step by step tutorial

In their own words, Firestore is Google’s flexible, scalable NoSQL cloud…

Writing and Passing the Google Cloud Associate Engineer Certification

Why AR Apps will struggle for engagement without the AR Cloud

AR-Native apps need real-time…

What Does a UX Designer Actually Do?

User Experience (UX) Designer is a job title you’re likely hearing more and more these days…

Algorithmic Trading Automated in Python with Alpaca, Google Cloud, and Daily Email Notifications

Building a “Serverless” RESTful API with Cloud Functions, Firestore and Express

What you need to get AWS Certified

Answers to your most frequently asked questions

Express.js on Cloud Functions for Firebase

Exactly what you would expect, almost…

Integrating Firebase Cloud Functions with Google Calendar API

Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform: code samples

Over the past few months, my team has been working on creating two 5-course specializations on Coursera called “Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform” and “Advanced Machine Learning on GCP”. The full…

How to schedule a Cloud Function to run in the future (in order to build a Firestore document TTL)

How to Make a Cloud-Free Security Camera for $3

A DIY device that won’t hand your data over to Amazon…

Introducing Prisma Cloud — A GraphQL Database Platform

The easiest way to run Prisma in production — on any cloud

After the invite-only preview, we are very excited to officially introduce Prisma Cloud, a serverless hosting…

6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud

“How emigration is actually lived — well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support…

On Passing All Google Cloud Certifications

And the questions I got in the Profession Data Engineer…

How to Share a Design System in Sketch, Part 1: Cloud Services

Many teams working with Sketch use a design system to scale their design, boost their productivity, and create consistent, cohesive products.

Cloud Computing for Beginners

Introduction to Cloud

Cloud Firestore Quicktip — DocumentSnapshot vs. QuerySnapshot

Since the Firebase team launched Cloud Firestore last week, one question/problem that keeps popping up on Stackoverflow is the result of there being two different ways to retrieve data that have to be handled slightly…

Using Airtable as a Handy Cloud Storage for your Apps

Introduction to Airtable 101

Deploy Machine Learning Pipeline on cloud using Docker Container

A beginner’s guide to deploy machine…

Familiar With Master nodes?Take A Look Into Super Nodes, Voter Nodes And Cloud Nodes!!!

Google Cloud — Data Engineer Exam Study Guide

This is a 12-page exam Study Guide hopes to cover all…

Architecting a Successful Modern Data Analytics Platform in the Cloud